Diego López Márquez

🏖️🌱🧬 Join us in Málaga: Oct 5–7, 2026! ✨Full list of invited speakers is now available 📢Abstract submission open: talks + posters 🏆Awards for best talk & poster 🗓️Early registration and abstract submission: June 5 ⚠️Limited spots, register early! 🔗 malaga.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index

🎉 The PGRP2026 website is live & registration is OPEN! 👉 malaga-en.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index Check out our amazing lineup of speakers Don’t miss out: we´ll also select speakers from submitted abstracts ❗️ Hurry up! we have limited seats! Join us in Málaga, Oct 5–7, 2026 🌞

Join us in beautiful Málaga! ☀️🏖️🌱🧬 5-7 Oct 2026 PGRP2026 will be amazing --> check ⬇️ our list of keynote and invited speakers 🤩 Register here 🔗 malaga.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index

Our recent review of Contact Sites is out in JXB. In collaboration with Yvon Jaillais. Jorge and Raquel did an excellent job. So easy with such talented PhD students... Tethers and Transporters: The Molecular Fingerprint of Plant ER–PM Contact Sites academic.oup.com/jxb/article/do…

22 amazing speakers already confirmed and taking place in the sunny and beautiful Malaga, what else can you ask 😀 See you next October 5-7! malaga.congresoseci.com/pgrp2026/index

So happy than this nice story, long-cooked by many dear colleges and myself, is completed and being reviewed 🥰 The tryptophan-binding pockets of Arabidopsis AGO1 facilitate amplified RNA interference via SGS3 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Postdoc opportunity! Are you into small RNAs, plant biotech 🌱 and want to design next-gen tools for crop protection 🛡️? Join us @ibmcp in sunny Valencia ☀️ and apply for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 🇪🇺 More info 👉 …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdo… #MSCApostdoc

🎉 10-year anniversary of our lab 🎉 Big thanks to everyone who joined us over these years and made this lab such a nice place to work

Are you interested in applying for a postdoctoral fellowship to join our lab at IHSM Málaga to study small RNAs? Email me for more details! Candidates must have obtained a PhD between January 2023 and December 2024. Hurry up, application deadline is 17 January 2025🌱🔬🏖️✉️

YTHDF proteins need a little help from a friend to read m6A! Check out our new pre-print, a result of a really great collaborative effort! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am happy to announce that with the generous support of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, we are hosting The Argonautes meeting in Copenhagen on August 21-24 2024. Please spread the word!

IN BRIEF: The mRNA puzzle: Intron retention under stress (Laura Arribas-Hernández) buff.ly/4czJctm @ifibyne @majisiglesias @JulietaMateos5 @solpsantangelo @Laurha_AH @ASPB #PlantSci

Our first paper on RNAi-independent functions of DCL2 is now out in The Plant Cell! A rare case where the phenotypic strength is proportional to enzyme levels over a >20-fold range! "Seeing is believing, but measuring is knowing..." :-) academic.oup.com/plcell/advance…

Evidence for an RNAi-independent role of Arabidopsis DICER-LIKE2 in growth inhibition and basal antiviral resistance (Carsten Poul Skou Nielsen, Laura Arribas-Hernández, Lijuan Han, Marlene Reichel, Jakob Woessmann, et. al.) buff.ly/3VbCqUl @ASPB #PlantSci

IN BRIEF: MacroLoops for microRNAs: Shall we revise the maximum allowed size? (Laura Arribas-Hernández) buff.ly/496TyhB @Laurha_AH @ASPB #PlantSci

Regulation of plant immunity via small RNA-mediated control of NLR expression doi.org/10.1093/jxb/er…

Proud to be part of this fantastic group of #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM here @ZMBP_Tuebingen Let’s celebrate this day!! Thanks @SociedadCerfa for promoting this day 💚

Postdoc position available in plant molecular biology

Our pre-print on sensing of double-stranded RNA via DICER-LIKE enzymes in plants is finally out - what a long journey that was! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our last paper is online! This work is a result of a collaboration with professor Masoud Shams from Tarbiat Modares University. In here, we characterized V2 protein from BCTIV as PTGS suppressor. mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/2…